Improvement in hinges



A. A. CLUFF.

improvement in Hinges,

Patented July 2Z1872.

ANTHONY A. OLUFF, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HINGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,593, dated July 2,1872.

Specification describing an Adjustable Hinge, invented by ANTHONY A.OLUFF, of the city and county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts.

My invention relates to the adjusting or changing the two parts of ahinge in regard to each other, both in the line of their axis of motion,and in all other directions at right angles thereto, and by acombination of them to adjust the two parts in any direction. Itsnatureconsists in the use of a pintle with a nut to raise orlower it attachedto one plate, and

on the other a block or cap in a socket, and adjusting it by means ofscrews therein.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows a hinge or butt with myinvention applied. Fig. 2 shows a vertical section of the pintle and itsnut. Fig. 3 shows a plan of the J in any direction at right angles tothe axis of the pintle. This construction allows the two parts of thehinge to be separated, or the door to be lifted off without otherchange.

In Fig. 4 a block or cap is shown with two holes to fit the pintle, andthe plate S having the pintle on a line with its center, allowing it tobe together to swing either right or left, as desired.

Having thus described my adjustable hinge, what I claim as new and of myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The pintle B, adjusted vertically by the set-screw and nut 0 workingin an aperture in the lower leaf, as shown and described.

2. The block or cap D, within the socket E, resting upon the pintle, andadjusted laterally, both in the direction of the plane of the hingeleafand at right angles thereto, as described and shown.

3. The combination of the vertically-adjustable pintle with the block orcap adjustable laterally within its socket on the upper leaf, allconstructed and operating as and for the purpose set forth.

, ANTHONY A. GLUFF.

Witnesses:

T. SMITH, PETER BEDELL.

